ENG 336—Studies in Nineteenth-Century U.S. Literature and History

A study of significant works of American poetry, drama, and prose from the early nineteenth century to the eve of WWI. May include the investigation of a specific theme?the US Civil War?or a particular genre, such as travel writing. Students may study various topics including nature and the environment, science and religion, slavery and abolition, gender and relationships, protest and reform, Reconstruction; may draw upon letters, diaries, travel writing, personal narratives, and political essays by such writers are Irving, Wheatley, Thoreau, Emerson, Hawthorne, Whitman, Dickinson, Melville, Twain, Poe, Wilson, Truth, Stanton, Douglass, Stowe, Howells, James, and Wharton.